One of Prague’s most popular legends sprang to life this month with a series of events celebrating the story of the golem. The centuries-old golem has been given a new lease of life with a joint Czech-Argentine project, “Golem 2002/5763.”
Germans who want to learn Yiddish now have an additional resource: Leo Rosten’s “The Joys of Yiddish” is hitting bookstores in Germany, 35 years after it first appeared in English.
Officials in northern Italy have condemned a far-right political party for protesting a drive to erect a Holocaust memorial. “South Tyroleans have more important problems than continually listening to Jews,” said Ulli Mair, secretary of the ex